Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, combining high historical and theological insights to reflect on the true center from the Christian story.

For Jon Meacham, as for believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential truths about Christianity. A previous vestryman of Trinity Cathedral Wall Road and St. Thomas Cathedral Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of beliefs and history in this about The Hope of Glory: Reflections around the Last Terms of Jesus through the Cross meditation in the seven phrases Jesus spoke through the cross.

Beginning with “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing” and finishing with “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,” Meacham catches for the reader how these phrases epitomize Jesus’s email of like, not hate; sophistication, not rage; and, instead of vengeance, outstanding mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes an essay on the roots of Christianity and how Jesus’s final terms created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the order of the world.

Writing within a tone more close than any of his previous functions, Jon Meacham results us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure in to the proclaimed Kid of God, worshiped by billions.